Introduction to Configuration Management – Concepts and Design for HutchNet

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Introduction to Configuration Management

Concepts and Design for HutchNet

Authored by Michael Gutteridge

What we're covering today

What is configuration management? Why we're using it About the Chef implementation project

Obligitory Wikipedia Quote

Configuration management (CM) is a systems engineering process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design and operational information throughout its life.

What does that mean to me?

A Gartner Group study [citation needed] suggests through 2015 that 80% of downtime is due to people and process

We are own worst enemy

  • complex interconnected systems
  • lack of rigorous and formal tests
  • documentation is always last, if at all
  • shooting from the hip
Introduction to Configuration Management Concepts and Design for HutchNet Authored by Michael Gutteridge